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Title
Aboriginal shield making - Port Macquarie area, NSW
Call number
At Work and Play - 04741
Level of description
item
Date

c 1905
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
392780
Scope and Content
Shows Neil Morcom (left) and Charlie Murray (right) demonstrating heliman (shield) construction on the mangroves near Settlement Point, Port Macquarie.
Description source

Catalogued using information collected during the New South Wales bicentennial copying of photographs project, 1986.
Australian Museum. Thomas Dick Birrpai Photograph Collection (National Committee of Australia, Memory of the World, 2023).
General note

Original item no. BCP 04741
Alphanumeric designations

Digital order no:bcp_04741
Attributions / conjectures

Photographed by: Thomas Dick
Creator/Author/Artist
Dick, Thomas, 1877-1927
Subject
Weapons - Shields - Making
Technology - Wood
Aboriginal Australians--Photographs.
Photography - Ethnographic
Worimi (Australian people)--Photographs.
Birrbay people E3
Topic
bark stripping
boomerangs
creeks
men
shields (weapons)
spears
trees
Place
Port Macquarie (N.S.W.)
Port Macquarie (NSW N Coast SH56-14)
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IE1677646

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